Perspective projection is not weird or non-standard. In some sense you could consider it the least weird projection, since it's what your eyes actually see when looking at a globe. But if you just can't get enough of Mercator, the option is still there in the hamburger menu (labeled "Globe").
Re:Google Maps is no longer a flat map
by CommieBobDole on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:57PM
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Google Earth desktop edition is still available. And it's still approximately ten thousand times better than the browser edition.
Re:Google Maps is no longer a flat map
by pseudonym2 on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:20PM
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It's gradually phased out. Right now it's essentially abandonware. At some point in the future they'll just kill it out of the blue. Things that provide value to advanced users don't matter to most of these "data-based" companies.
Will Google support and maintain an actual maps application? Or will they merge google earth and google maps together in an even less capable tool purely for consumers to wow at? Castrating Google Earth with the webgl version and locking it into Chrome was bad enough. I wish this stops here.